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random observer wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 9:55 pm I say this sincerely: what serious person cares for even one second if someone calls it a lacrosse field or a pitch?

DMac wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 10:19 am

random observer wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 9:55 pm I say this sincerely: what serious person cares for even one second if someone calls it a lacrosse field or a pitch?

I do. It's a field, not a pitch. If Ian MacScotsman is doing the game from Glasgow it's all good but it's here in the USA
where we play on lacrosse fields. 60+ years around the game, never once heard the field called a pitch....Carc and
Quint never did either, must be they think it's hip and cool (it aint at all).

coda wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:40 pm

LaxPundit07 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 7:09 pm Time and again, Joe Beninati is the best our sport has to offer. I love hearing his calls on the Sunday night Big Ten games. And now we are blessed with his call in the tourney. His lacrosse IQ is off the charts (having been a collegiate goalie) but he uses it in a way which provides meaningful context for the viewer and projects a really professional air on the mic; not to show how many lax bros he knows or how many goals/saves he had in some game in 1987 that no one cares about now. Some of the other guys sound like they are on a blind date and want to impress their date by reliving the glory days. Joe B sounds “cool” because he is a pro’s pro.

He is one of the best.

fordmaddoxford wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:13 pm I know Beninati is from L.I.and went to Bowdoin. Where did he play his high school ball?

Brownlax wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 2:18 pm

fordmaddoxford wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:13 pm I know Beninati is from L.I.and went to Bowdoin. Where did he play his high school ball?

St. Mary’s in Manhasset

Henpecked wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 3:48 pm

Brownlax wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 2:18 pm

fordmaddoxford wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:13 pm I know Beninati is from L.I.and went to Bowdoin. Where did he play his high school ball?

St. Mary’s in Manhasset

That is incorrect. Joe was my teammate at St. Anthony’s. Great guy and a great athlete. Was a terrific goalie for our hockey team as well.

CU77 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:43 pm

mdk01 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:36 pm

fordmaddoxford wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 6:48 pm

CU77 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:27 pm Beninati & Ward calling ND-Albany are such a relief to listen to after the endless babble of those other guys ...

You mean to say they don’t do shtick?

I mean to say they don't genuflect to the ACC like Quint and Carc.

Quint & Carc spent 6 hours of the Ivy League Tournament proclaiming that the Ivy League had off-the-charts talent and was going to be the best conference in the country next year

mdk01 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 12:54 pm

CU77 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:27 pm Quint & Carc spent 6 hours of the Ivy League Tournament proclaiming that the Ivy League had off-the-charts talent and was going to be the best conference in the country next year

Probably a one off for the audience of that weekend. I expect they will revert to their norm of the last 10 years.

CU77 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 6:37 pm

mdk01 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 12:54 pm

CU77 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:27 pm Quint & Carc spent 6 hours of the Ivy League Tournament proclaiming that the Ivy League had off-the-charts talent and was going to be the best conference in the country next year

Probably a one off for the audience of that weekend. I expect they will revert to their norm of the last 10 years.

Oh absolutely. It just shows how they hype everything endlessly, it's so tiresome.

LaxPundit07 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 9:18 pm Carc is the biggest hype man “in all of college lacrosse”.

MPSSAAlaxfan wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 12:00 pm I, for one, am just glad the PLL draft is over with. I may be in the minority, but I don't care about Carc's big board draft prospects. I'm interested in watching the college teams compete for a championship, not hearing about how this player or that player will fit into a pro scheme here or there. For my money, this is the pinnacle of the sport and the PLL is glorified post-collegiate club ball.

MPSSAAlaxfan wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 12:00 pm I, for one, am just glad the PLL draft is over with. I may be in the minority, but I don't care about Carc's big board draft prospects. I'm interested in watching the college teams compete for a championship, not hearing about how this player or that player will fit into a pro scheme here or there. For my money, this is the pinnacle of the sport and the PLL is glorified post-collegiate club ball.

jhu06 wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 2:33 pm quint today
(at the end of the game)"I saw a Denver kid outside our tv truck. He vomited. I asked him if that was normal. He said he vomits his breakfast every day. Denver staying true to who they are."

"All I see at BWI is lacrosse teams going in and out on southwest. They should have a monument to lacrosse there for all the business lacrosse brings Baltimore and Maryland"

"Looking forward to getting to (a tavern) in Philadelphia next weekend. Last time we were there Carc knew everyone in the joint in his first half hour there."

BigTurn wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 12:05 pm

MPSSAAlaxfan wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 12:00 pm I, for one, am just glad the PLL draft is over with. I may be in the minority, but I don't care about Carc's big board draft prospects. I'm interested in watching the college teams compete for a championship, not hearing about how this player or that player will fit into a pro scheme here or there. For my money, this is the pinnacle of the sport and the PLL is glorified post-collegiate club ball.

Agree. College is the pinnacle of the sport. PLL only had my interest for a bit when teams were aligned to colleges. Couldn’t care less at this point. Not to mention the insanely dumb face off / shot clock rules now.